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Jan-28-08
 | | jessicafischerqueen: TWENTY-SIXTH PLACE
<Walt Disney>
PHOTO: http://www.yoursdaily.com/var/yours... CONTRIBUTION TO COOLNESS: <Set the ball in motion that would ultimately cause grown men in South Korea to go to work wearing "Mickey Mouse" sweatshirts> FUN FACT: <didn't want Jews or Blacks allowed into the original Disneyland until his lawyers convinced him it was a "bad idea"> HOBBIES: <stealing the work of others. He actually made up a story about how he "created Mickey Mouse" in his mind while a kid on a farm. In fact, the character was developed and named (first Mortimer, then Mickey) by non-union animator "Ub Iwerks"> VIDEO: "Steamboat Willie"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEEa... |
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Jan-28-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: TWENTY-FIFTH PLACE
<Hugh Jackman>
PHOTO: http://img.timeinc.net/people/i/200... CONTRIBUTION TO COOLNESS: <Holy Krap did you see that picture??> FUN FACT: <Holy Krap did you see that picture??> HOBBIES: <Holy Krap did you see that picture??> VIDEO: Hugh Jackman in bed (yikes!)
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Jan-28-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: TWENTY-FOURTH PLACE
<Gandhi>
PHOTO: http://zagrebsummit.yoga-in-daily-l... CONTRIBUTION TO COOLNESS: <liberated millions of people without killing anybody.> FUN FACT: <favorite line when hanging with American friends in Burger restaurants: "no salt for me, thanks"> HOBBIES: <Making the rest of us look bad> VIDEO: Gandhi waxes metaphysical
http://img.timeinc.net/people/i/200... |
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Jan-28-08
 | | Domdaniel: <Was it Swiss or Round-Robin?>
Or Swiss Family Round-Robinson? |
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Jan-28-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: TWENTY-THIRD PLACE
<Brendan Behan>
PHOTO: http://www.focusdep.com/images/Bren... CONTRIBUTION TO COOLNESS: <created a unique writing style that combined "Wildean humor" and "Kafkaesque horror" in order to castigate the evils of his day> FUN FACT: <looked a lot like Babe Ruth (see photo)> HOBBIES: <Drinking, pitching up in Pogues songs: "And in Brendan Behan's footsteps, I marched up and down, the street..."> VIDEO: A reading of a Behan speech on the Irish Uprising http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyrk... |
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Jan-28-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: TWENTY-SECOND PLACE
<Joe Cocker>
PHOTO: http://www.irocknroll.com/images/Jo... CONTRIBUTION TO COOLNESS: <Making epileptic siezures cool> FUN FACT: <doesn't remember one minute of Woodstock. Not... one... minute> HOBBIES: <Singing "white blues", drinking, refusing to grow old gracefully> VIDEO: Steals the show at Woodstock
(it really doesn't get any better than this- more conviction than every subsequent performer in history, except maybe for "Radar O'Reilly") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOwl...
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Jan-28-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: TWENTY-FIRST PLACE
<Ray Keene>
CONTRIBUTION TO COOLNESS: Whupping the <Great Jan Timman> when Timman was at the ABSOLUTE HEIGHT of his chess powers-- check out this baby!! Keene vs Timman, 1973
White to move... and virtually force black to accept a VICIOUS ATTACK. The rest of the game is like watching a rabid wolverine in a rabbit pen... 
click for larger viewFUN FACT: <Was the second British GM in history-- although some say Ray was actually first, and that Tony Miles rushed out HIS GM norms while Ray's were still at the chemist's> HOBBIES: <enjoys conversing with our own <<<mack>>> in some kind of incomprehensible secret dialect>: <ray keene: <mack>. glad to see we-ie hardingesimpole - have a satisfied customer> |
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Jan-28-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: TWENTIETH PLACE
<John Cale>
PHOTO: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jack0f... CONTRIBUTION TO COOLNESS: <making the world's ugliest haircut and the world's ugliest goatee look sexy> FUN FACT: <taught Lou Reed "everything he knows"> HOBBIES: <cricket, gardening, tea with the late Sid Barrett> VIDEO: The DEFINITIVE version of Cohen's masterpiece: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jack0f... |
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Jan-28-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: NINETEENTH PLACE
<Eddie Murphy>
PHOTO: (notice how Eddie is "keeping his hoe in line" in this pic- extra points for this- specially since it's Mariah Carey) http://www.hollywoodrag.com/images/... CONTRIBUTION TO COOLNESS: <Showed the world that, unlike Garrett Morris, Black members of SNL could actually be funny> FUN FACT: <Eddie has a bigger gun collection than did the late James Brown> HOBBIES: <Starring in really, really terrible movies and making a really, really terrible record> VIDEO: Eddie's Reggae classic: "kill the white people" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctf3... |
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Jan-28-08
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> A magnificent edifice so far -- your deft handling of <proportional representation> and the <single transferable vote> would put most so-called democracies to shame. If they ever again hold elections in Korea, Canada or Florida they should hire you as <vote consultant> at a vast fee. No more hanging chads, except in Chad, where they belong. |
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Jan-28-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: EIGHTEENTH PLACE
<Johnny Carson>
PHOTO: http://content.answers.com/main/con... CONTRIBUTION TO COOLNESS: <smoked cigarettes on stage WAY after it was "not cool"> FUN FACT: <took off his pants behind his desk while interviewing Ed McMahon as an official "guest" (true story)> HOBBIES: <air golf>
VIDEO: Johnny's last ever TV appearance- NOT TO BE MISSED! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvaU... |
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Jan-28-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: SEVENTEENTH PLACE
<John Peel>
PHOTO: http://www.flickr.com/photos/auntie...
CONTRIBUTION TO COOLNESS: <first British DJ to play Reggae, Punk, and many, many alternative acts and bring them all a wider audience> FUN FACT: <One of Peel's teachers wrote this on one of his report cards: "Perhaps it's possible that John can form some kind of nightmarish career out of his enthusiasm for unlistenable records and his delight in writing long and facetious essays." HOBBIES: <laughing out loud at Smiths' lyrics> VIDEO: Excellent brief interview-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHPX... |
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Jan-28-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: SIXTEENTH PLACE
<Janis Joplin>
PHOTO: http://www.mycheers.com/60's/joplin...
CONTRIBUTION TO COOLNESS: <made being physically ugly in a truly unusual way seem really cool> FUN FACT: <nailed Kris Kristofferson> HOBBIES: <Jack Daniels, blowing people off the stage> VIDEO: Simply without peers-- makes "Beyonce" sound like a tobacconist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjD4... |
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Jan-28-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: FIFTEENTH PLACE
<Lyndon Johnson>
PHOTO: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/do... CONTRIBUTION TO COOLNESS: <Deliberately took Bobby Kennedy on a hunting trip to make fun of him. Although it would have been even funnier if he had shot him in the face by "accident"> FUN FACT: <actually composed the chant "Hey, Hey, LBJ, How many kids did you kill today" while drunk with his pals in the Oval office> HOBBIES: <Passing all of JFK's civil rights bills into law> VIDEO: The Big Man takes office-- God Bless Texas!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qrE... |
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Jan-28-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: FOURTEENTH PLACE
<Ray Charles>
PHOTO: http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/cms/... CONTRIBUTION TO COOLNESS: <did the "Stevie Wonder" thing before Stevie> FUN FACT: <He wasn't actually blind. He did it as a publicity stunt, then realized once everyone believed him he could never, ever change his story> HOBBIES: <Heroin, being on parole, hosting Saturday Night Live> VIDEO: a voice like silk--- groovy black and white film, too http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/cms/... |
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Jan-28-08
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Given the events depicted by Leonard Cohen (a late vote for Lennie here, coolest Canadian at the very least) in the song 'Chelsea Hotel', don't you think that any talk of Janis Joplin "blowing people off stage" is, well, a tad ambiguous? I *know* it was deliberate, but hey -- *somebody* has to play the straight man. I'll rephrase that. Somebody has to play the fall guy. Okay, play the fool. I comply. |
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Jan-28-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: LUCKY THIRTEENTH PLACE
<Humphrey Bogart>
PHOTO: http://www.lector.net/vermay00/boga...
CONTRIBUTION TO COOLNESS: Greatest line in movie history: <Peter Lorre>: "That's the second time you've slapped me..." <Bogie>: "When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it." FUN FACT: <In film, Bogart was sent to the electric chair 12 times> HOBBIES: <Keeping his Hoe in line- Over the Board>--(extra points) Bogart vs L Bacall, 1951
White to play... and say "When you're slapped you'll take it and like it." 
click for larger viewVIDEO: "I took it for granted she was lying..." "I'll KILL HIM if you don't!!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgby...
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| Jan-28-08 | | Ziggurat: <jess> Enjoying this thoroughly so far. Surely, King Assurbanipal will appear later in the list. |
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Jan-28-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: LUCKY THIRTEEN-B
(there was a late nomination "I couldn't refuse")
<Aretha Franklin>
PHOTO: http://basic1.easily.co.uk/052006/0... CONTRIBUTION TO COOLNESS: <role reversal- inspired a whole generation of women to "keep they men in line"> FUN FACT: <Was signed by John Hammond Sr., who also signed Billie Holliday and Bob Dylan. Not all on the same day, though.> HOBBIES: <Having two children in her teens, SO BACK OFF!!> VIDEO: Look at her move-- much, much cooler than Cliff Richard... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STKk... |
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Jan-28-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: TWELFTH PLACE
<Sean Connery>
PHOTO: http://a1259.g.akamai.net/f/1259/55... CONTRIBUTION TO COOLNESS: <Not content to be the greatest James Bond in film history, Sean took umbrage at Culloden Moor and the fact that the last free Scottish Parliament sat in 1704-- and began swanning about the world stage complaining that Scotland was not a "real country."> FUN FACT: <his mother's name was "Effie." Heh. "Effie"> HOBBIES: <delivering some of the greatest lines in film history>: from The Untouchables:
"Just like a Dago, to bring a knife to a gunfight..." VIDEO: heh Sean tells a whole pile of people he is actually "James Bond" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFZt... |
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Jan-28-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: ELEVENTH PLACE
<William S. Burroughs> PHOTO: http://www.webbartgallery.com/artis... CONTRIBUTION TO COOLNESS: <Made heroin addiction even more glamorous than did Lou Reed's immortal song "heroin"> FUN FACT: <nailed David Cronenberg on the set of "Naked Lunch"> HOBBIES: <wrote an unfilmed, but absolutely brilliant, screenplay about famed gangster Dutch Shultz in which Burroughs compares the urge for violent crime to heroin addiction> VIDEO: "What keeps mankind alive"-- profoundly CHILLING-- not to be missed http://www.webbartgallery.com/artis... |
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Jan-28-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: TENTH PLACE
<Pele>
PHOTO: http://www.lupiga.com/enciklopedija... CONTRIBUTION TO COOLNESS: <nailed Xuxa> (see picture)--http://webs.enterate.com.ar/Web/Art... FUN FACT: <Pele successfully got a law passed stopping corruption in Brazilian football> HOBBIES: <nailing Xuxa> VIDEO: Greatest footballer ever... period.
http://www.lupiga.com/enciklopedija... |
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| Jan-28-08 | | mack: Oops! By 'Major Clem' I was referring to the finest British Prime Minister of all time, Clement Attlee. His little profile would look a little something like this: <Major Clem>
PHOTO: http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=606... CONTRIBUTION TO COOLNESS: The NHS is pretty cool, innit? FUN FACT: He is the only PM to have composed a poem for a fifteen-year-old schoolgirl. Her name was Anne Glossop, who first sent Attlee the following: Would you please explain, dear Clement
Just why it has to be
That Certificates of Education
Are barred to such as me?
I've worked through thirteen papers
But my swot is all in vain
Because at this time next year
I must do them all again
Please have pity, Clement,
And tell the others too,
Remove the silly age-limit
It wasn't there for you.
To which the PM replied (marking it 'Secret'):
I received with real pleasure
Your verses my dear Anne
Although I've not much leisure
I'll reply as best I can
I've not the least idea why
They have this curious rule
Condemning you to sit and sigh
Another year at school
You'll understand my excuse
For lack of detailed knowledge
Is that school certs were not in use
When I attended college.
George Tomlinson* is ill, but I
Have asked him to explain
And when I get the reason why
I'll write to you again.
HOBBIES: According to the Downing Street website (http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/...), gardening, ball games, chess and crossword puzzles. What a lad! VIDEO:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeWc...
But let's just keep your Major Clem instead, shall we? * Then Minister of Education. |
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Jan-28-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: NINTH PLACE
<Winston Churchill>
PHOTO: http://www.interet-general.info/IMG... CONTRIBUTION TO COOLNESS: <vanquished The Hun with one hand (the other was always busy holding a big cigar)> FUN FACT: <believed Robin Hood was a real person (source- History of Britain, Vol. One)> HOBBIES: <Dividing Europe into Free and Communist countries with a pencil on a cocktail napkin (true story)> VIDEO: Greatest speech, by anyone, in history--
"Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization..." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsKD... |
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Jan-28-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: EIGHTH PLACE
<King Assurbanipal>
PHOTO: (forgive the poor quality-- I believe it was taken with a Kodak Instamatic) http://www.livius.org/a/1/mesopotam... CONTRIBUTION TO COOLNESS: <Invented the modern concept of the "Library" (true story). Since this is a Chess website, I'm assuming this is very cool> FUN FACT: <First Assyrian King to learn to read and write. Which means he beat Charlemagne by a cupla thousand years> HOBBIES: <Killing every man, woman, child, and farm animal in "selected cities" (coming soon to a city near you!)> VIDEO: Assurbanipal helps celebrate "Cyrus the Great Day". Why don't we have "Cyrus the Great Day" in Canada??!!! Ripoff!! (spoiler- in Arabic. Or ancient Akkadian-- I'm no expert) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8os... |
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